Iomega Zip 100

[Craig Brown]

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>Message: 1
>Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 13:10:51 +0100
>From: retuow at xs4all.be (Wouter Eerdekens)
>Subject: Re: Iomega Zip 100
>To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
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>Hello Craig,
>
>On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 06:58:46AM -0500, Craig Brown wrote:
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>>I just installed Ubuntu 4.10 and it seemed to detect my hardware except 
>>when I tried to mount my zip drive it says:
>>*mount: special device /dev/hdc4 does not exist
>>    
>>
>
>udev is responsible for (not) creating the necessary devices. When udev
>creates the devices, there indeed isn't a /dev/hdc4 if you didn't insert
>a ZIP diskette during the boot process.
>
>  
>
>>*My */dev* directory does not have a *hdc* device there, however when I
>>run the command: *dmesg | grep hdc
>>*It returns:
>>*hdc: IOMEGA ZIP 100 ATAPI, ATAPI FLOPPY drive
>>    
>>
>
>See above.
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>  
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>>*I checked my fstab and there's not a listing for hdc there.
>>
>>How can I make my zip drive work in Ubuntu?
>>    
>>
>
>Try booting with a ZIP diskette inserted. It ain't pretty, but it should
>work.
>
>Cheers,
>Wouter
>
>  
>
Hello Wouter,

I want to say thanks in advance for your help.
I tried the reboot with the disk in the drive and it's still the same,
the dmesg output was the same and still entry fstab.

I tried running MAKEDEV -v hdc in the /dev dir and the output was:

Darkstar:/dev# ./MAKEDEV -v hdc
create hdc      b 22 0 root:disk 0660
create hdc1     b 22 1 root:disk 0660
create hdc2     b 22 2 root:disk 0660
create hdc3     b 22 3 root:disk 0660
create hdc4     b 22 4 root:disk 0660
create hdc5     b 22 5 root:disk 0660
create hdc6     b 22 6 root:disk 0660
create hdc7     b 22 7 root:disk 0660
create hdc8     b 22 8 root:disk 0660
create hdc9     b 22 9 root:disk 0660
create hdc10    b 22 10 root:disk 0660
create hdc11    b 22 11 root:disk 0660
create hdc12    b 22 12 root:disk 0660
create hdc13    b 22 13 root:disk 0660
create hdc14    b 22 14 root:disk 0660
create hdc15    b 22 15 root:disk 0660
create hdc16    b 22 16 root:disk 0660
create hdc17    b 22 17 root:disk 0660
create hdc18    b 22 18 root:disk 0660
create hdc19    b 22 19 root:disk 0660
create hdc20    b 22 20 root:disk 0660

Then I did ls -l hd*

Darkstar:/dev# ls -l hd*
brw-rw----    1 root     plugdev    3,   0 Dec 30 11:18 hda
brw-rw----    1 root     cdrom      3,  64 Dec 30 11:18 hdb


Craig